Apple keeps tinkering with the "Liquid Glass" look it introduced in macOS Tahoe, and designer BasicAppleGuy has lined up dozens of system app icons from the latest beta (codenamed Golden Gate) next to their Tahoe versions so you can see the changes.
The colors are bolder, the icons look sharper, and the glassy refraction effect has been reworked — most visibly in Journal, where the way light bends through the icon has changed.
The Finder icon, he writes, "has undergone a bit of rhinoplasty over the past year, returning to the more rounded nose that recalls earlier iterations of the icon" — though the new version's "sharp black edges around the nose currently feel a little unrefined."
On Freeform, you can watch the refraction at work as the inner circle "distorts as it approaches the edges of the rounded rectangle layered over it."
This is beta 1, so he can't yet tell whether the flatter, sharper glass is an early-build artifact or the intended final look.
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